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Wow—thank you. It was an honor to meet you. And thanks also for the honorary (undeserved) doctorate!
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She supposedly said, “Don’t call me a saint. I don’t want to be dismissed that easily.” See my reflections here: americamagazine.org/content/…
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I’m afraid this is wrong— it was “Don’t CALL me saint, etc.” the difference is really very significant
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Every time his manservant heard the master discourse on the importance of raking the forest, the health hazards of hot springs, or the latest conspiracy theory about bears, he made sure to act as if it was for the first time. #TolstoysTalesofTrump
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Happy birthday to my wonderful sister @MaryEllsberg, who has made the world a safer and healthier place for women around the globe. (@GWUGlobalWomen). Love and gratitude for your courage and goodness.
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A favorite story of #DorothyDay, who died Nov 29 1980. When she was a child in Chicago, Dorothy went to visit her friend Katheryn Barrett in a neighboring tenement apt. Bursting into the kitchen she found Katheryn’s mother kneeling on the floor saying her prayers.
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Mrs Barrett said Katheryn was out and then proceeded with her prayers. Day writes, “I felt a warm burst of love toward Mrs. Barrett that I have never forgotten, a feeling of gratitude and happiness that still warms my heart when I remember her. ...
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“She had God, and there was beauty and joy in her life.” Day’s own later life was marked by drama, but the memory of this little scene never left her. “There were moments when, in the midst of misery and class strife, life was shot through with glory. ...
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”Mrs. Barrett in her sordid little tenement flat finished her breakfast dishes at ten o'clock in the morning and got down on her knees and prayed to God.” Today Day’s cause for canonization is in process. Pope Francis cited her as one of 4 “great Americans.”
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The master’s son raised 2 turkeys—Bread and Butter—from birth. But when they befouled the master’s collection of Napoleonic stamps he expelled them from the estate. “Let their names be forgot!” he decreed. “Let any who finds them on the road eat them.”—#TolstoysTalesofTrump
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—Flight attendant: “Apologies to all our passengers who wanted wine. We seem to have run out.”
—Blessed Mother nudges her son.
—Jesus: Mother! It is not my time!
—Blessed Mother to flight attendant: “Do what he tells you!”
—Flight attendant to pilot: “Security alert at 27C!”
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FD of St Catherine Labouré (d 1876), a French nun who spent her life in obscurity. Her superiors called her “insignificant, cold, almost apathetic.” Only after her death was it revealed that a vision in her first yr as a nun had inspired the Miraculous Medal worn by millions.
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